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Title Dateline: Dirty Money/Oil and Assassins
Published Australia : SBS ONE, 2015
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Summary DIRTY MONEYA private investigator filmed secretly at a leading law firm in Papua New Guinea, revealing a trail of corruption and influence peddling involving politicians, bureaucrats and lawyers. The investigator posed as a fund manager looking to invest in PNG during an initial appointment with Young and Williams Lawyers. He was working for the NGO, Global Witness, and later handed the footage to SBS and Fairfax. The law firm is owned by Australian Greg Sheppard and his business partner Harvey Maladina. They have represented high profile clients, including the current PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill. Several of their clients have faced corruption charges, so the investigator is looking to find out if their practices are above board.Greg Sheppard is the father of three members of the popular Brisbane band Sheppard, and owns the business behind it. He was until recently a director of Wilson Protective Services, a subsidiary of Wilson Security, which is the company that runs the Australian detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru. His resume also says he's a former Queensland Crown Prosecutor and his website says he was awarded an OBE and the Companion of the Star of Melanesia for his distinguished service to PNG. He's lived and worked in PNG for more than 25 years. In conversation with the investigator, he states that he's not advising the potential investor to break the law.OIL AND ASSASSINSGilberto Torres survived Colombia's death squads. Now he wants justice - and an oil giant is in his sights over alleged complicity in his kidnap and torture.Torres' case is linked to a multimillion dollar pipeline taking oil from one of the world's richest oil fields. Thousands disappeared, as civil war raged and entire communities were displaced along the pipeline's route. Union leader Torres represented over 400 local workers, and after he ordered a shutdown in 2002, he also disappeared. His van was rammed as he drove home from work at an oil pumping station. Some paramilitaries bundled him into another vehicle and took him away
Notes Closed captioning in English
Event Broadcast 2015-06-23 at 21:30:00
Notes Classification: NC
Subject Lawyers -- Malpractice.
Money laundering investigation.
Paramilitary forces.
Politicians -- Corrupt practices.
Trials (Crimes against humanity)
Undercover operations.
Indonesia.
Papua New Guinea -- Port Moresby.
Form Streaming video
Author Palmer, Meggie, reporter
Abbott, Tony, contributor
Koim, Sam, contributor
Maladina, Jimmy, contributor
Sharman, Jason, contributor
Torres, Gilberto, contributor